The travellers made their way onto parkland after a post preventing access was left unlocked

They gained access to the site used by Netherton Junior Football club after a post designed to prevent vehicle access was left unlocked.

They were briefly locked in when the post was padlocked again.

But complaints from the travellers led to it being removed.

Local resident Cheryl Armstrong told the Huddersfield Examiner: “I heard one of their kids was charging a tenner to let the local kids play in ‘their’ park! I’ve just nearly run into one who came flying out into the road on his scooter.

“Not good. If they surprise me and leave it clean in a couple of days I may change my view but I don’t want my kid playing on a dirty field.”

It comes after the local area has been besieged by travellers over recent days.